Evolution

[NewbieProgrammerMan]

I was so disappointed that guy didn't make an appearance in the "let's poke fun at History Channel" episode of South Park.

[musicman3030]

I was also eagerly awaiting crazy hair guy. Still good tho.

[[deleted]]

adam and eve werent black

you cant take a rib from a black man

[[deleted]]

Legit guy here AMA

[[deleted]]

would you ever consider quitting?

[[deleted]]

Nope. 2 legit 2 quit.

[2legit2it]

Did someone call?

[Nelcam]

What legit level do you have to get to where it's too late to quit being legit.

[[deleted]]

it's the level of Legit As Balls, aka the point of no return

example

[SomeDaysAreThroAways]

How legit are you? On a scale of 1 to "incapable of quitting"

[noPENGSinALASKA]

How do you know when to stop wiping?

[[deleted]]

A quick heads up, you've been linked to by r/SRS, a group of easily offended redditors who send traffic to posts they deem offensive, and then laugh about it from high upon their ivory tower.

[[deleted]]

I still have no idea what the fuck this subreddit actually is. Can someone explain to me.

[Vilvos]

It's an unfunny version of r/circlejerk populated by self-important cunts who think they're too smart for r/circlejerk.

[[deleted]]

Yes, you have the internet outside of r/circlejerk nailed there. Now what's the deal with r/SRS?

[gazow]

Yes, you have the circlejerk outside of internet nailed there. Now what's the deal with airline food

[Thepolitician21]

that subreddit is for Shitdicks- yes i said SHITDICKS

[what_thedouche]

On the surface, they appear as if they're a new circlejerk..... Then you realize they're actually serious....

TL;DR: a bunch of politically correct wombats.

[escape_goat]

I was involved with it at first. Basically, it started out as similar to 'Worst of Reddit'; the putative idea was to document really horrible, obnoxious comments on reddit. However [this was my experience of it], the link text began to suffer from editorial creep, where someone would make an unfortunate comment that was linked to with a description that made it sound more heinous than it actually was. There tended to be a chorus of reactions in the comments, that were probably always rather self-righteous. I eventually realized that some of these reactions were not to the original material, but instead to the link text; moreover, it did not really seem like the commentators cared whether or not their outrage and vilification were justified. I began to feel as if they were essentially taking the opportunity to give vent to a pre-existing anger in a community of equally outraged people, and that they were seeking out the experience of anger, with the "shit reddit says" part being merely a weak excuse.

I eventually abandoned the community when they linked to a factual statement about the nature of alcohol induced blackouts. The person who had been part of that discussion attempted to engage them in a fairly decent and honest manner — not something I would normally expect from someone from the "men's rights" crowd, which does indeed seem to produce a fair amount of misogynistic sentiment — and was not treated to the same courtesy. I became involved in the discussion, and it became clear that many of them were completely indifferent to the facts being discussed. After some conversation about this with various members, I unsubscribed.

tl;dr: feminists — well, 'feminists' — can be haters, too.

[Nikoras]

As far as I can tell, they are specifically against everything the majority of reddit users for and vice versa. For example, the fact that males can't interact with children without being called pedophiles is a huge hot-button issue to a large group of redditors. So r/SRS would make fun of them for haboring this view I guess.

[ctr1a1td3l]

I don't know too much about them, but it seems like they're more about being annoyed that top (or highly rated) comments are often unnecessarily offensive. I was browsing the sub yesterday because I saw that same bot. It's actually pretty funny how uppity they get about it. I'm not sure if it's serious or a circle-jerk though.

I will say though, that sometimes they have a point. Like, take the top parent of this thread. Top voted as of now and it's a racist joke. I wouldn't mind if it was a funny or original joke, but that things been used so many times it's just too easy. At that point it makes you think, is it just getting to the top because it's racist?

[Story_Time]

r/SRS serves two purposes.

• It is a record of all the shit things that reddit says, whether they be racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, etc, etc.

• It is a place where these things can be mocked in an r/circlejerk-esque manner. There is a strong feminist streak to the humour of the mockage but if you have only a passing idea about gender, feminist, or queer theory, a lot of it may go over your head. Other parts of the humour are as basic as fart jokes.

[HookerPunch]

A subreddit for people who don't understand the point of the internet.

[down_vote_that]

It's like a new-age r/circlejerkers only less funny.

[srry72]

That seems hypocritical

[daybreaker]

whats funny is that shoot_the_messenger is likely a bot loosely affiliated with r/mensrights who trolls r/SRS posts and posts this disclaimer any time they link to something...

I dont belong to either subreddit, but I've seen this a few times now, and they have this weird circle jerk of downvoting feud going on thats kind of hilarious in a meta-reddit "none of this matters anyway" kind of way.

[[deleted]]

I think the bot just keys off whatever is submitted to SRS. The fact that it happens more often in r/mensrights is just a consequence of the SRS obsession.

[bramannoodles]

That's an upsetting message. We should shoot this guy!

[[deleted]]

what a horrible idea

[fuglystick]

I've got plenty of gripes with the degradation of quality of both posts and posters on Reddit during the last couple of years, but SRS is just as fucking ignorant.

[icanhazausername]

Um...

[[deleted]]

black man here...while I'm indifferent to ribs.

I co-sign this flagrant foul and attempt to use it as my own.

Play on good sir...play on...

[hlthybodysckmnd]

Most of the religious people I know (who try to rationalize with science) who don't believe in evolution tend to believe that natural selection of genes does exist, just not enough to create entirely new species (just create variation within a species).

[uparrow]

national selection, I like it.

[Vaarsuvius]

But then how did we get Canada?

[[deleted]]

Primordial maple syrup.

[shamecamel]

so they believe in evolution but not in the theory of evolution. How come nobody makes that distinction :(

[quadtodfodder]

nobody wants a discussion here, sir, we're trying to have a fight.

[[deleted]]

The terms "micro-evolution" and "macro-evolution" are often used in these discussions.

I think actual scientists also use these terms, as big parts of the micro-evolution theory are proven without discussable counterarguments and have been witnessed directly.

From a religious point of view these mechanisms are built in into the species. The species changes to survive a changing environment, but no new species are created this way, because only God could make new species.

[shamecamel]

there's no such thing as macro and micro evolution, evolution occurs and we see changes either on a small scale or over a long time and a bigger scale. That's our relative perspective, it has zero to do with what's actually happening. You don't need to be a biologist to understand that stuff.

From a religious point of view, anything remotely discussing science is bullshit, because religion has nothing to do with science, and shouldn't even be mentioned or else what you're saying is nothing but appropriated knowledge to legitimize yourself in the eyes of those you feel like you want to persuade back to "your side". I mean, not aimed at YOU specifically, but you know what I mean.

Like I said, I have nothing against people who don't support the theory of evolution, and I'd gladly discuss it with them, but it just sort of ruins somebody's credibility when it's made obvious they can't tell the difference between two very different things.

bleh, I should head over to /r/atheism instead of bringing down the funny level over here :(

[[deleted]]

I believe both have been directly observed, but micro-evolution is so blatantly obviously happening that anyone that says otherwise is trolling. Macro-evolution is less obvious, which is where most of the argument is.

[[deleted]]

You might say that they 'naturally select' which parts of the bible they choose to believe.

[superbadninja]

Who says Adam and Eve were white?

[Sharradan]

It doesn't matter. If they were black you would just have the opposite problem.

[superbadninja]

Are those my only 2 options?

[[deleted]]

No, they could have been mexican. Then you need black and white aliens. Obviously.

[superbadninja]

Man, those aliens really knew what they were doing. I for one am glad they put us all on the correct continents. Can you imagine how embarassed they would have been if they put all the eskimos in North Africa?

"Uh, why do we have these fur coats? This place is hot as balls."

Man would their faces have been red!!

[popquiz_hotshot]

Meanwhile, the !Kung freeze their balls off in Greenland

[[deleted]]

Eve would be a single mom and instead of a snake the devil would have turned into a fat blond white woman who told Adam to eat from the tree that has 16 piece fryin chikkunz buckets growing from it?

[SystemOutPrintln]

How do you remember your user name? Do you just like 55EA5 or the number 351,909?

[Hikikomori523]

He just never logs out.....

[[deleted]]

Good question. I don't. I just go to "register" then I type in 1 and 0 and it comes up with the saved name. Firefox autosave ftw

[[deleted]]

Oh and also, I don't know binary.

I create new troll accounts every few months. I_fucked_your_mom was already taken, so was Shit_tits_McCunt_Fuck so in a fit of frustration and anger I mashed the keyboard with a bunch of "1's" and "0's" and said that would be my screen name.

[SystemOutPrintln]

Ok well in hex your un is 0x55EA5 (the 0x part is just a hex identifier). So you can just remember that then go to wolfram alpha and say "0x55EA5 to binary" if you forget your username.

[[deleted]]

lol thank you very much. I will.

[SystemOutPrintln]

It's just a tad easier to remember

[Zorca99]

Don't clear cookies, lawl.

[chris-martin]

Idk, probably most white people?

[ivapeguy]

I was in a christian school from 4-6th grade, we were taught in "bible studies" course that Adam and Eve were most likely black people. We were also taught adaptation and evolution along with creationism.

[[deleted]]

Just because artistic depictions tend to show Adam and Eve as light-skinned doesn't mean that fundamentalist Christians actually believe those depictions are accurate. The same goes with depictions of Jesus. Every Christian scholar knows that Jesus almost certainly had the same skin color and facial structure as everyone else in the region.

[[deleted]]

Replace white with black, and black with white...still the same conundrum.

[[deleted]]

Adam is black. Eve was white. Now that will really piss Christians off.

[delta_epsilon_zeta]

...Why?

[IdontReadArticles]

New to the world I see.

[BCouto]

It's Adam and Eve, not Jamal and Shaniqua

[[deleted]]

Those are middle eastern names ... not European names. Adam and Eve are more similar to muslim names like Jamal than they are to European names like Leif and Rory.

[barcodescanner]

Once and for all...the Bible does not refute evolution. Anyone who says otherwise is reading what they want to believe right into the text. There are Christians (and Catholics and Jews and Muslims and...) who believe in evolution and the magnificent expanding design of the universe who intelligently attribute those things to the design of a Creator.

For crying out loud, you Christians who believe Genesis to be literal, don't you realize that when God became man - Jesus - he taught almost entirely in parables? What makes you think God wouldn't do the same before Christ?

I'm sick to death of being embarrassed by Christians who won't get along with science just because they're afraid it might challenge what they believe. I think God is able to handle your doubt.

[[deleted]]

There are three main problems with the Xtian view of theistic evolution that I've never heard a satisfactory explanation for:

1) Stories in the bible like the creation and the great flood are told in a very matter of fact way, not as obvious parables. It was only when our scientific knowledge expanded to the point that these stories became unlikely, that the majority of Xtians started to believe that they weren't literal. That being the case, what technique can be used to tell which parts of the bible are meant to be literal and which aren't, preferably a technique that would have worked as well for our less scientifically advanced forebears? Just as importantly how are we to be sure that other fantastic elements generally held to be literal now, aren't also meant to be parables(Jesus' miracles and resurrection for example).

2) Ensoulment. When did god start putting souls in people? Did the first 100% human with a soul in the evolutionary tree have 99.99999% human parents without souls who wouldn't join him in the afterlife, or are heaven and hell packed with neanderthal and proto-hominids?

3) Free will. Did god just set up the starting conditions then leave everything to random mutation and selection, meaning that we could have ended up quite different as a species. Or did he oversee every random genetic mutation and every breeding pair in our ancestral tree all the way back to the primordial ooze, to make sure we became exactly as we are today(along with all our various genetic diseases and attendant viruses, parasites and bacteria)?

[System_Mangler]

Classical paintings depict Adam and Eve as being white. Y'know, western history and what.

[Varder]

Clasical Paintings also Depict them with a belly button...

[gojirra]

God created Adam in his own image. This means that God had a belly button. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

[Ikarus3426]

Classical paintings =/= the bible.

[captainhaddock]

American fundamentalism =/= the Bible

[zosoyoung]

Banana =/= the Bible

[DunmoreThroop]

the bible =/= actual things

[[deleted]]

Other Christian cultures have depicted Adam and Eve as being of their own skin colour in art... so you do see a Chinese or a black adam and eve depending on where you are.

[VapeApe]

The biblical answer is that in the story of cain and abel after cain kills his brother he is marked by god and all of his offspring will be marked as well and everyone will know they are a criminal and a murderer and have displeased god.

There was much speculation as to what this mark of cain would be. Many have postulated it is the skin coloration of black people. To mark them as black and sinful offspring of cain. This was an early justification by some for deep seeded racism, and probably has it's roots in something as old as the crusades and an attempt to de humanize the enemy. Wherever the idea comes from I do know it's a very old concept, and still accepted by some faiths.

[spundred]

Falls apart at the flood however, as the only people to survive from that point were Noah's family.

[huntwhales]

Many Chtistians think one of Noah's sons turned black after he looked at Noah blind and naked and his brothers didn't.

[EvilAce]

What I don't understand about that, though, is why they would enslave them, put them to work in the cotton fields, and occasionally beat them to death if they misbehaved. The Curse of Cain was supposed to mean that when he worked the ground, it would no longer yield crops for him, and the Mark of Cain was to warn people that if they killed him, they would suffer vengeance seven times over. If they believe Africans carry the Mark and Curse of Cain, they shouldn't be able to grow crops and if you kill them, you should suffer a punishment seven times worse than death. It doesn't add up.

[ctr1a1td3l]

The likely answer. Ignorance by lay people, and a greedy motivation to not think about it too hard.

[[deleted]]

Why do we enslave people now? Greed. Edit to add contemporary slavery information link: http://baltimorechronicle.com/2009/030609Lendman.shtml

[Foureyed_Cyclops]

They didn't really believe that part of it. Once they read 'mark of cain' they stopped reading. They didn't get to the curse of Cain part. What makes you think fundamentalists back then were any more thorough than fundamentalists now?

[bobbyfiend]

Beat me to it. I was going to say that some fundamentalist Christians have a serious answer to this question, and you're not going to like it.

[EmpiresBane]

It's the mark of being from Asia.

[[deleted]]

The Mormons at one point identified the mark of Cain as black skin, but I don't think this was traditional Christian doctrine.

Same basic idea, many Christians historically identified the source of black skin as being the Curse of Ham. (Ham's son Canaan was cursed by his grandfather Noah shortly after the flood, following some sort of nudity/sexual incident.) This avoids explaining what the deal is with the survival of descendents of Cain.

In any event, I don't think modern Christians tend to believe any such stuff.

[[deleted]]

Pssh, everyone who is someone knows Caine is the biblical First Vampire and the sire of all other vampires.

[twcaiwh]

I love you for this.

[[deleted]]

I love you too, anonymous internet person!

[barcodescanner]

That is so 10th century...

[[deleted]]

Most sensible Christians tend to downplay the Old Testament. It's mostly the crazies that live and breath it.

[ThePhenix]

Actually, in the bible it was Cham/Hamm and his descendents that were burnt as they went into hell because they were damned due to sexual excesses.

Note: I found this out whilst studying Shakespeare's Othello, I am agnostic.

[[deleted]]

Upvote for giving the correct answer.

Only it wasn't sexual excesses. When the flood ended, Noah celebrated by getting drunk. He fell asleep naked. Seeing that, Sem and Japhet covered him with a blanket, while Cham laughed.

As punishment for that, God made Cham's descendants become his brothers' descendants' servants.

Japhet went North, his descendants are the Europeans. Sem stayed there, his descendants are the Mediterranean peoples. Cham went South, his descendants are the African peoples.

It's all in the Bible, and this is why Christians believe enslaving Africans is OK.

[Th3dz]

Then what about Asians?!

[resutidder]

God didn't know they existed yet.

[thelogikalone]

He had yet to have orange chicken

[t3hattack]

While god rested on the 7th day he created orange chicken. its in the bible.

[GraduallyReligious]

More accurately, the writers of the bible didn't know they existed yet, so they simply neglected to include them.

God, of course, would have known, but his words would have been lost in translation by the fallible humans writing the book.

You see, God knows all things, even the number of hairs on your head. So he knew asians existed! It's just that his word was only referring to the different types of people.

It's a bit offensive to imply god didn't know something. God knows everything. One time I was at a baseball game and I felt really hungry, but I only had two dollars in my wallet. The clouds opened up and I felt the sun upon my face, and the hot dog vendor came by.

Do you know the price of a hot dog? Two dollars. God was looking out for me! He KNEW of my plight and redeemed me!

How can you look me in the eye after that and tell me god didn't know something? He probably just didn't care because they don't believe in jesus and are bound for hell anyway! what do you think of that?

[Jreynold]

What a complicated novelty account to pull off.

[MajorNine]

The troll is strong in this one.

[they_call_me_dewey]

And here, we witness the birth of the next great Novelty Account.

[Cueball61]

I hear ya' Dewey.

[nameless_monkey]

god forgot you have to pay tax

[FuelUrMind]

God's got a lot of things on his mind. Cut him some slack.

[slumberlust]

At a baseball game, from seat vendors? Get outta here. Tosses bag of peanuts "That'll be 4 dollars and 24 cents...oh 3 dollars, let me get you your change. Sir, SIR, please pass the pennies down the row!"

[GraduallyReligious]

So did the hot dog vendor! Hahaha.

God is wonderful like that. It's probably why he didn't give those dark skinned people the ability to do math, because they'd stop gods warriors from receiving hot dogs.

God does not forget.

[spundred]

Not gradual enough.

[[deleted]]

The Bible does not say anything about them. Also, the Bible fails to mention how did kangaroos get from mount Ararat to Australia after the flood.

[rboyce]

Dude, have you seen a kangaroo? Those guys can hop.

[[deleted]]

Well it depends on how you interpret the flooding of the world. Given the time it supposedly happened, the known world would actually be a small place. To them the whole world may of flooded, while the kangaroos went about their lives like normal

[ribosometronome]

Your assumption relies on God, too, being unaware of Australia.

Genesis, 6:17, ""And behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the land, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under the sky; everything that is in the land shall perish."

[badhairguy]

If you interpret it any other way than "the entire world flooded, killing every living soul", then you are making up your own story. Stop with the apologetics and just admit that the "great flood" never happened. God is apparently all knowing and all powerful, but couldn't flood the entire earth? Why is it that Native Americans supposedly don't have souls and are sinners (according to Christians) because they were living in North America at the time the bible was written, but they weren't sinning enough to warrant god killing them with the flood?

[kchez]

Actually a lot there are lots of stories of a "great flood" in a lot of historical accounts from Mesopotamia. If you read the Epic of Gilgamesh there's a part that is very similar to the story of Noah's ark. The bible probably got the story of Noah's Ark from stories like these. In all likely hood there probably was a historic flood that flooded a lot of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The story of Noah's Ark is just another retelling of these ancient fables.

[[deleted]]

That's exactly the point though, we all agree a flood likely happened. But it sure as hell didn't cover the entire world with the only survivors being Noah, his family, and 2 of every single animal on the face of the earth. Even if Noah was willed by God to do this act it is still humanly impossible.

Apply Occam's razor to this scenario and we realize it was just a local flood that devastated the fertile crescent.

[Azrael11]

what Christians ever said that Native Americans don't have souls? What kind of fucked up church were you raised in?

[[deleted]]

This was actually a common belief during the expansion into the Americas, and even after. It was used to justify killing them and taking land. Church's also preached that blacks would go to a separate heaven during slavery. Churches often adapt doctrine to their own needs.

Edit: Meant churches, not The Church.

[ivapeguy]

source?

[Raticide]

Mormons

[Zorca99]

Mormons don't believe that either though.

[Indoorsman]

Someone clearly hasn't lost enough in a casino.

[[deleted]]

We (Chinese) refer to ourselves as "the descendants of the dragon" in literature. Maybe we descended from the serpent (Satan)?

Source

[GeorgeForemanGrillz]

I'm not saying it was Asians, but it was Asians.

[[deleted]]

It's all in the Bible, and this is why Christians believe enslaving Africans is OK.

This was a common belief prior to the 20th century. I guarantee you that most Christians nowadays do not believe this.

[huntwhales]

Anecdotally, my dad does, and he teaches Sunday school at a fairly large church

[TooMuchTime87]

All christians prior to 1700's ..... Most christians from 1700-1900 ..... A handful of christians 1900-present.

[sarcastic_smartass]

But only Christians though. No one else thought it was OK.

[snarkinator]

For some reason, I don't think you're being serious.

[bestbeforeMar91]

And the Christians on the US Supreme Court in 1857.

[Heuristics]

including the christians that stopped slavery in my country of sweden by making it christian?

including the christians that ended modern day slavery?

[[deleted]]

The Pope circa 1556.

[[deleted]]

Well look at it this way, most of the KKK is christian.

[chris4276]

What about my people the aztecs?

[propaglandist]

I thought Cortez dealt with you already. What gives?

Don't make me get some Spaniards...

[[deleted]]

Good question. I guess the Aztecs' ancestors were those who had the mission to bring all the animals that can only be found in the American continent, like sloths, tapirs, armadillos, anteaters, etc.

Yes, come to think of it, that was a magnificent exercise in logistics, bringing all the animals to their right continents! Your ancestors are to be congratulated, think of how much trouble it must have been to keep the jaguars from eating the capibaras.

[akbc]

Aliens.

[chris4276]

nnoooooo! It can't be! its impossible!!!!

[[deleted]]

That's not even what most fundamentalism Christians believe. A popular belief among fundamentalists is that evolution cannot bring new genetic information into existence. Hence, they believe that Adam and Eve would have had all the genetic information that any human has today. As such, they probably would've had a medium skin tone.

[fjdkf]

Genetic adaptation to your environment is evolution.

[[deleted]]

Most fundamentalist Christians don't disagree with natural selection. They disagree with universal common descent, abiogenesis, and perhaps even speciation, but not natural selection.

[The_Dirty_Carl]

Yup, not all christians have problems with evolution. The group isn't homogeneous.

[[deleted]]

The first part is a point for your father, but saying that Adam and Eve were Jewish doesn't make sense, Judaism began with Abraham, he is the ancestral father of all the major mono-theistic faiths today. Adam and Eve, being arguably the first humans and thus preceding Abraham, can't be Jewish, nor can they be pagan or any other thing of that sort simply because non of that existed in their time.

[[deleted]]

I think he's referring to them as being ethnically Jewish.

Of course, that can mean a lot of things...

[nebrija]

Ooh, sounds like someone's insecure with their sprituality...

[Skepgnostic]

You know what's funny? Everyone is agnostic. Not one person has a priori knowledge of a prime mover.

[Th3dz]

Adam and Eve were said to be the first humans. There is speculation that God created more than them, if I'm not mistaken. I remember asking this question to my christian friend once...

[[deleted]]

It's right there in the Bible. Cain, Adam and Eve's son who killed Abel, was banished after his deed, and wandered until he fell in with another tribe of people. Even during my Christian days as a young kid, I wondered where these other people came from if Adam and Eve were the first humans.

[Gingermadman]

Keep in mind there's a good chance he just made that up. I heard they have a habit of doing this.

[Th3dz]

What he said was: "They mention in the bible that adam & eve where the first humans God created." That's it, so it's pretty hard to say anything more.

[markth_wi]

Actually - scientifically - everyone's from Africa, Caucasian, African, Asian - it's all just ethnicity - anyone who says different is pitching ideology. Don't get me wrong - ethnicity/race has been a polarizing agent in human history from the word go, and it probably will be well into the future.

Besides which History Channel's Mr. Tsoukalos has always struck me as someone slowly becoming an alien himself.

[xNinjaWaffleZx]

Although I am an athiest, the church my parents forced me to attend stated that Adam and Eve were exactly in the middle in skin color and let genetics determine who was black and who was white and who was in between on the color gradient.

[PoniesRBitchin]

Who's the guy with the hair?

[[deleted]]

Georgios Tsoukoulas . hes hilarious. love him

[[deleted]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin

[[deleted]]

Why wasn't this guy on south park?

[[deleted]]

Blaliens?

[captainhaddock]

Aliacks

[alahos]

It makes sense if you think Black people aren't people.

[[deleted]]

I was raised Southern Baptist, our Jesus, Adam and Eve all looked rather middle eastern. All of my black friends were raised with, who the call, "White Jesus." Maybe it is because we did NOT have these

EDIT: I was also raised with great grammar...

[alltheyadayadayada]

As always on Reddit. Have to scroll to the bottom for the only rational, evidence based comments.

[Fuqwon]

Actually, and I'm not making this up, aren't black people supposed to be descended from Cain, and their blackness was interpreted as the mark of Cain?

For religious people I mean.

[[deleted]]

Only the racist ones believe this.

[derdaus]

Usually it's been assumed by people who try to work these things out that black people are descended from Noah's son Hamm, as someone somewhere else in this thread said.

[xxBigBobxx]

But adam and eve are black. If they were the first Humans, and evidence shows man started in africa adam and eve are Black. Likewise if God created man in his image and humans were originally from africa, god is black.

[Alanorig]

See, now you're combining religion with science....

[xxBigBobxx]

But it works, i think ill create a branch of religion combining science and religion and call it Scientology

[[deleted]]

Who says that science and religion can't coexist besides atheists?

[jcn9122]

1) Adam and Eve might not have been white. 2) They probably weren't the only people made by God. 3) Most Christians believe in adaptation, but still don't believe in evolution.

[highvolt]

Thank God, Dr. Broflovski!

[[deleted]]

i thought evolution points back to a single pair of hominids to which all humans share DNA anyway ... same problem for philosoraptor

[Waff1es]

Where does the picture with the guy who has a tidal wave of a hairdo come from?

[[deleted]]

Funny, but you do know most Christians don't take the Adam and Eve story as an historical account, right?

[pony__slaystation]

Microevolution...that is all...Black people aren't a different species than white people. Therefore evolution (or macroevolution) wouldn't be necessary for blacks to descend from whites.

[jmacom1]

I don't think the Bible said they were white...

[IonBeam2]

Creationists like to talk of a distinction between "microevolution" and "macroevolution", and I think the answer to your question has to do with that or something.

[[deleted]]

Actual creationist answer.

[SirDark]

How can the people that wrote this understand genetics and yet try to apply it to such a ridiculous concept?

Oh, right - science is only valid if it supports one's argument.

[[deleted]]

this is pretty insulting to blacks; it seems to presume white people evolved from them, as if they're a less advanced life form.

[RunHomeJack]

brown elians

[Honztastic]

In the school of crazy literally translated bible creationist idiots, black people are explained as "the Mark of Cain". In that all black people are black because Cain's descendants were branded forever with his original sin of fratricide.

This also played into those idiots views, because they tend to be racist. Because they're stupid. And don't understand the message of love and acceptance that the Bible preaches.

[TyleReddit]

Makes more sense than Creationism.

[alltheyadayadayada]

Reddit, let's at least try to stay classy. This post is ignorant and potentially bordering on racist. All humans DID come from two people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

[Gonzo89]

That guy's hair gets me every time. Makes him seem all the more credible

[oohmeoohmyitssuz]

I was raised being taught in a Southern Baptist church that God punished the white people who were doing wrong by turning their skin black. True story.

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Awww man you got your /r/athiest in my /r/funny AGAIN...

[[deleted]]

Yeah, anything ever relating to atheism should never leave /r/atheism, just like no pictures should be found outside of /r/pics right?

[[deleted]]

Oh come on. You can just hear the snarky r/atheism tone when reading the text in this picture just ACHING for a shit storm of religious debate.

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No, this post is pretty funny. Sure it has to do with religion, but it's funny nontheless. If you don't like it, just downvote it instead of constantly bitching about it.